Always (CD)

Xiu Xiu

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Amoeba Review

Aaron Detroit, Hollywood 12/05/2012

Jamie Stewart has been making records as Xiu Xiu for over a decade, but his brand of transgressive and experimental pop is still as striking and jarring as ever. The album's brightest and most unsettling moment features a soaring vocal by the great Carla Bozulich (The Geraldine Fibbers, Evangelista). She sings Stewart's lyrics of graphic wonderment around surviving a hate-crime. This is the sort of pudding-proof that Stewart is still the bravest and most unflinching lyricist of his generation (and the next.)